Prairie Home Breads: 150 Splendid Recipes from America's Breadbasket Book

Filled with rich stories of ethnic and regional culture, agriculture, Midwestern culinary traditions, and warm celebrations of Heartland food.

Library Journal

A cooking columnist and author of three cookbooks, including the James Beard Cookbook Award and IACP Cookbook Award nominee Prairie Home Cooking (LJ 8/99), Fertig returns to the Midwest to explore its diverse bounty of breads. Opening with an overview of bread-baking tips and techniques, she devotes separate chapters to various types of breads, including yeast, naturally leavened, whole-grain, and quick rising. Covering everything from Swedish Rye Bread to Raspberry-Almond Muffins, Fertig's collection of sweet and savory treats should please both those searching for a taste of the past and those who prefer something more modern. A few recipes for jams, preserves, and selected dishes that use bread as a main ingredient, such as bread puddings, are slipped in along with some wonderful short essays on topics such as quinces. Written with wit and a keen appreciation for her topic, Fertig's book is a culinary delight: a cookbook as much fun to read as it is to bake from. Highly recommended for all public libraries. John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., AZ Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.